Lovely Jubbly Council Tax rises

Who would have thought gutting council budgets and giving them more responsibility for Adult Social care from 2012 (Health Act pushed through by Lansley) would leave so many now to cut services and raise taxes.

Adult Social care - accounts for about 22% of the budget for local councils. Housing accounts for 3%.

Adult social care covers services for older people including nursing, home, residential and day care and meals and services for people with a physical disability, learning disability or mental health needs.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...to-rise-across-england-as-austerity-hits-hard

The annual survey by the Local Government Information Unit thinktank found that cuts were increasingly visible and that after eight years of austerity – which has cost English councils 40% of their central funding

Central funding now accounts for about 52% of council funding down from about 75-80%. Council Taxes now account for 25% of funding, about 20% comes from redistributed business rates.

Cameron was right we will PAY MORE FOR LESS.

 

The whole council concept is bonkers in this day and age. There are over 400 different councils in the UK all performing very similar functions. Why don't they have, one procurement, IT, HR etc dept and at the very least buy stuff centrally.

 

Councils serve a useful purpose in taking the blame off the Government.

https://assets.publishing.service.g...ealth-role-of-local-authorities-factsheet.pdf

Yet everyone was saying it would be a disaster because we need a more integrated health and social care system to reduce costs. Unless Lansley aim was to prep the NHS for its eventual privatisation.

 

Lol and that's going to be enough to cover the shortfalls.

They do but stuff collectively. You need to read up how councils operate.

 

There you go again, SG, expecting the swivel-eyed loonies here to want, or even be able, to know the facts.

 

Councilers

Uncle joe would have stood most of em up against the wall

 

Your Uncle Joe doesn't sound like a very nice fella...

 

The only "swivel eyed loonies" on this forum are you and half a dozen others. None of you have a civil tongue in you swivel eyed heads. What a bunch of clowns.

 

That's right - you keep telling yourself that it is the mark of a loony to take notice of facts, and to WANT to do so, and to seek them out, and to care about truth, honesty, decency etc, and that to be ignorant, and to WANT to remain so, and to not give a stuff about truth, honesty, decency etc are the marks of a caring, civilised and intelligent person.

You carry on cultivating within yourself all the characteristics of hateful, hate-filled scum.

 

Well Er

Is that the sugar coated version

truth , honesty, decency, civilised well yes I have all of those attributes a stalwart of the community is Transam , spend most of my time hel;ping others . The meek , the weak , the poor, the infirm, the less fortunate in society

 

The post you quoted wasn't directed at you though, was it.

You're not very good at this, are you.

 

Were you bullied as a child?...had some serious trauma,,,or just had serious lessons in being obnoxious to everyone?Or all of the above.

 

Well Er I know

But I just thought I would list my attributes using your post

You got Tourette's